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Summary of Significant Accounting Policies Property, Plant and Equipment (Details)	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2017
Property, Plant and Equipment [Line Items]
Composite depreciation rate, low	1.09%
Composite depreciation rate, high	23.00%

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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